DOVER — The Dover School District is weighing available options and trying to clear up misconceptions after it received a letter from the Division of Public School Academic Facilities earlier this week.

The district posted the letter — which uses a lot of technical language — to its Facebook page, causing some people to express concern.

"These buildings, the upper middle school and WPA gymnasium, aren't dangerous," Owens said. "The structures are sound. I have had them inspected. The problem is they're not handicap-accessible, and the classrooms and dressing rooms don't meet current Arkansas educational standards."

The current standard classroom size, according to arkansasfacilities.arkansas.gov, is 850 square feet. Classrooms in the lower middle school are 500 square feet.

"We'd be spending more money than the buildings are worth," Owens said. "We don't feel it's a good use of district funds to put money in those facilities."

Owens said another misconception is that the district is close to being put in academic facilities distress.

The letter states the division doesn't believe Dover School District warrants consideration of academic facilities distress at this time.

"Our elementary and high school facilities are excellent," Owens said. "We're one vote away from having an excellent middle school facility."

Before the district can conduct a third and final millage election, it must come up with some "temporary fixes" to address deficiencies in the upper middle school and WPA gym.

The fire marshal is expected to do a new inspection within 30 days. Following his inspection, it is likely the district will temporarily conduct P.E. classes in the cafeteria and close the gym. The division indicated it would then give the district permission to conduct a final election in 2015.